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Walking with Nobby: Conversations with Norman O. Brown by Dale Pendell
"Dr. Brown was a master of philosophical speculation, mixing Marx, Freud, Jesus and much else to raise and answer immense questions."-Douglas Martin, The New York Times
Dale Pendell and retired professor Norman Brown, during walks taken along the coast of California, discuss many concepts and characters, including paganism and world religions, Dionysus, Marx, and Freud, presented here as footnoted conversations.
Norman O. Brown (1913–2002) was an American scholar born in El Oro, Mexico. He studied at Oxford University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison and taught at Wesleyan University and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Writer Dale Pendell was a student and friend of Brown.
Dale Pendell and retired professor Norman Brown, during walks taken along the coast of California, discuss many concepts and characters, including paganism and world religions, Dionysus, Marx, and Freud, presented here as footnoted conversations.
Norman O. Brown (1913–2002) was an American scholar born in El Oro, Mexico. He studied at Oxford University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison and taught at Wesleyan University and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Writer Dale Pendell was a student and friend of Brown.
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First published October 1, 2007
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Dale Pendell
26 books77 followersDale Pendell is the author of the award-winning Pharmako trilogy, a literary history of psychoactive plants.
He reads and distills the literature of pharmacology and neuroscience, of ethnobotany and anthropology, of mythology and political economics as they intersect with the direct experience of human psychoactive use.
He and his wife Laura currently reside in California.
He reads and distills the literature of pharmacology and neuroscience, of ethnobotany and anthropology, of mythology and political economics as they intersect with the direct experience of human psychoactive use.
He and his wife Laura currently reside in California.
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May 16, 2023
Pendell knew Norman O. Brown, and studied Brown's works extensively, and the resulting "walks" tell alot about Brown's philosophy and about Pendell's joyful and curious approach to live. Immensely beautiful truths stand out, and often. May both men rest in peace.
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